Don't Take Anything for Granted

Instead of acknowledging that all-merciful Lord who is constantly showering us with his unlimited kindness at every minute, our tendency is to forget Him considering ourselves to be in every way independent. Such forgetfulness is the root cause of all our anxieties in this material existence. So if we can simply wake up and realize that everything we have is provided by God, that we are fully dependent upon Him for everything at every moment, all of our problems will solved. We will be living in paradise.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Author Teaches Total Dependence on God
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia--12 June 2010Sankarshan Das Teaches Total Dependence on God

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: Only One Way to Connect with God?

Guru Maharaja,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

On the one hand you say that there is only one way to connect with God, and that is the teachings of Krishna. And in the 20 July 2010 "Thought for the Day" you have told us that there are four sampradayas through which we can connect with God. Kindly elaborate.

Your obedient servant,

Sundar

Answer: One Way Taught by Many

It is fact that there is only way to connect with God, and that is through pure devotional service. This science of pure devotional service has come down to us through four disciplic successions or sampradayas. In this regard Srila Prabhupada writes as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 1.18.21:

"All of the four original sampradayas are still scrupulously engaged in the transcendental service of the Lord up to date, and they all declare that Lord Krishna, Mukunda, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and no other personality is equal to Him or greater than Him."

Of these four sampradayas, the Brahma sampradaya is especially potent because it is in this sampradaya that the Supreme Lord Himself has only recently appeared on this planet 500 years ago. And it is this sampradaya that we are humbly serving through the sublime teachings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Tridandi Goswami Maharaja Prabhupada.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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